Monday, October 4, 2010

Wanderer Progress Report

Many of you probably had seen this image.

It was originally made by a Game Store owner to determine how customers quickly pick up a product when it shelved in various positions.

Whenever this image appears it nearly always gathers a positive response with more than a few going "How I wish this game existed." Since the release of the Traveller SRD for Mongoose Traveller more than a few people tried.

While there may be others, Doc Grognard over on Crawdads and Dragons seems to be the furthest along. He has a beta version of the rules available here and still working on the "Book 3" portion of the game.

Bat in the Attic Games

How to make a Sandbox

The Old School Renaissance

To me the Old School Renaissance is not about playing a particular set of rules in a particular way, the dungeon crawl. It is about going back to the roots of our hobby and seeing what we could do differently. What avenues were not explored because of the commercial and personal interests of the game designers of the time.

What are RPGs?

A game where the players play individual characters interacting with a setting with their actions adjudicated by a human referee.

Rules are an aide to help the referee adjudicate actions and to help the players interact with the setting.

Dice are used to inject uncertainty which make a tabletop RPG campaign more interesting than "Let's Pretend".

The only thing a player needs to do to roleplay a character is to act if he or she was really there in the setting in that situation.